Daily Archives: May 2, 2016

President Hassan Rouhani says there is suitable ground for foreign investment in Iran as he receives his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye in Tehran. President Park was accorded an official welcome in Tehran on Monday on the first day of her three-day visit, heading South Korea’s biggest-ever traveling business delegation of over ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Three new movie releases failed to best Disney s The Jungle Book, which trounced the competition at the US box office during its third weekend with US$42.4 million (S$56.99 million), industry estimates showed Sunday. With a domestic total of US$252 million and a global take of more ...

Former England coach Peter Moores has turned down an opportunity to succeed Waqar Younis as the new Pakistan coach, the 53-year-old Englishman said. Coaching Pakistan, traditionally a fractious bunch of talented individuals, is one of the toughest jobs in international cricket and Younis stepped down a disillusioned man last month ...

Egyptian police have stormed the headquarters of the Journalists’ Syndicate in central Cairo and arrested two journalists on charges of inciting protest rallies against the government. Officers stormed the press labor union building in downtown Cairo on Sunday and arrested Amr Badr and Mahmud el-Sakka. Badr heads the Arabic-language opposition website ...

At least 15 Somali soldiers have lost their lives in a car bomb attack by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants northeast of Somalia’s capital, military sources say. According to the sources, the incident occurred on Sunday morning in the town of Runirgood, about 180 kilometers to the northeast of the country’s ...

The Iranian parliament (Majlis) has voted in favor of a bill to boost the missile capabilities of the country’s armed forces to strengthen the country’s defensive capacity and deterrence. Iranian parliamentarians on Sunday approved an additional article to Iran’s next five-year development plan, which allows the country to expand its ...

An Israeli lawmaker has accused Tel Aviv of committing “ethnic cleansing” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amid a rise in the demolition of Palestinian houses and buildings in the area. Dov Khenin told Sky News on Sunday that Israel’s demolition of Arab structures in the so-called Area C of ...

The survivors of a fatal US airstrike on a hospital have called for those responsible to stand trial, dismissing Pentagon’s recent probe that the bombardment did not amount to a war crime. “This report is an absolute insult to the victims of MSF hospital in Kunduz,” said Esmatullah Esmat, who ...

Workers’ Day demonstrations in the US city of Seattle turn violent as protesters clash with law enforcement officers with reports of injuries on both sides. At least three officers were wounded and several people arrested on Sunday when May Day demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at cops and broke windows. ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has once again appealed to Sergey Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, for help to salvage the ceasefire in Syria amid fierce fighting in the city of Aleppo. Speaking at the start of a meeting with Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in Geneva on Sunday, Kerry expressed ...